opposer

Definitions

Interesting fact:
Eating chocolate three times a month helps people live longer as opposed to people who overeat chocolate or do not eat chocolate at all

nopposerŏp*pōz"ẽr One who opposes; an opponent; an antagonist; an adversary.

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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

Interesting fact:
In 1987, Ron Hextall of the Philadelphia Flyers became the first NHL goalie to score a goal. Actually, Ron Hextall was the first NHL goalie to score a goal by shooting the puck towards the opposing team's net in 1987. Billy Smith was the first goalie credited with a goal in 1979 when his clearing pass hit an opposing skater and went into the other team's goal.

nopposerOne who opposes; an opponent; an adversary.

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Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

Interesting fact:
The football huddle started at Gallaudet University (the world's only accredited four-year liberal arts college for the deaf) in the 19th century when the football team found that opposing teams were reading their signed messages and intercepting their plays.

nOpposerone who opposes

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Quotations

Mary Caroline Richards

“Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.”

J. S. Habgood

“Movements born in hatred very quickly take on the characteristics of the thing they oppose.”

William Shakespeare

“Oppose not rage while rage is in its force, but give it way a while and let it waste.”

Ann Oakley

“Housework is work directly opposed to the possibility of human self-actualization.”

James Russell Lowell

“The true ideal is not opposed to the real but lies in it; and blessed are the eyes that find it.”

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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”

Etymology

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary

Fr.,—L. ob, Fr. poser, to place.

Usage

In literature:

Richardson's candidacy, long foreshadowed, was seen to require an opposing nominee of unusual popularity.

"Abraham Lincoln, A History, Volume 2" by John George Nicolay and John Hay

The wise oppose swelling ascetic power with ascetic austerities, so should force be opposed by force.

"The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 2"

The Whigs opposed the annexation of Texas.

"Children of the Market Place" by Edgar Lee Masters

But I am opposed to all railroads, the depot for which is an unprincipled speculator's pocket.

"T. De Witt Talmage" by T. De Witt Talmage

It opposes and violates the commands of God, and is full of strife and pride.

"A Review of Uncle Tom's Cabin" by A. Woodward

He always represents their cause as a cause of liberty, and all who oppose it as partisans of despotism.

"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. V. (of 12)" by Edmund Burke

It was veiled from him that many of those who ardently opposed him thought in those same terms.

"Edward Caldwell Moore" by Edward Moore

Troup had been solicited to oppose him, but was loath to embark anew in political life.

"The Memories of Fifty Years" by William H. Sparks

Other English accounts state the number of guns actually opposed to the fleet at from two hundred and twenty to two hundred and thirty.

"Elements of Military Art and Science" by Henry Wager Halleck

With what success did they oppose him?

"Pinnock's Improved Edition of Dr. Goldsmith's History of Rome" by Oliver Goldsmith

Yet I made one attempt more, and drafted a letter to Shepstone, intimating that I would oppose the annexation by force of arms, etc.

"The Transvaal from Within" by J. P. Fitzpatrick

They absolutely opposed any sort of co-operation with bourgeois parties of any kind, for any purpose whatever.

"Bolshevism" by John Spargo

The earls who had saved Hubert began to oppose the whole administration.

"The History of England" by T.F. Tout

Dr. Witherspoon opposed every alteration of the article.

"Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson" by Thomas Jefferson

The German forces opposed to this first army consisted of five active army corps and a reserve corps.

"The Story of the Great War, Volume III (of 12)"

Mr. Foote is opposed to all public discussion.

"The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 7 (of 12) Dresden Edition--Discussions" by Robert G. Ingersoll

I am opposed to compulsory immigration, or cooley or slave immigration.

"The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 8 (of 12) Dresden Edition--Interviews" by Robert G. Ingersoll

All this was opposed by the Democratic party; opposed with a bitterness, compared to which ordinary malice is sweet.

"The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 9 (of 12) Dresden Edition--Political" by Robert G. Ingersoll

Everywhere and at all times, it has opposed the liberty of thought and expression.

"The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition--Miscellany" by Robert G. Ingersoll

Do you wonder that the priests oppose our school system?

"Christianity and Modern Thought" by Various

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In poetry:

Of these their masters some were dead,
And prisoners some, but all were foes,
Who from their slaves and homes had fled,
The Union forces to oppose.

No matter how overwhelmingly the scientific community may back a research study, naysayers can always find a scientist to support the opposing view on issues ranging from tobacco smoke to global warming.

In science:

As stated above, accurately quantifying the effect of using solar-scaled as opposed to C-enhanced model atmospheres in abundance analyses of CEMP stars is challenging.

Carbon Abundances of Three Carbon-Enhanced Metal-Poor Stars from High-Resolution Gemini-S/bHROS Spectra of the 8727A [C I] Line

They also noted the role of turbulence in facilitating the interplay of opposing interactions.

Magnetism, FeS colloids, and Origins of Life

Phyllotactic patterns are produced when the sequential accretion/deposition or appearance/growth of elements, is governed by an energy-minimized optimization of the main opposing forces: largest available space vs repulsive interactions.

Magnetism, FeS colloids, and Origins of Life

The collection of peers who receive content remains constant. This is due to the entire southbound set having been saturated, but not within the range of the bidirectional regular range of the opposing set.

Content Sharing for Mobile Devices

This polynomial quantiﬁes the way in which the trivial action of one quandle element on another is distributed throughout the quandle as opposed to concentrated in a single identity element as in a group.

On rack polynomials

We have also seen that improving bench alignement (to within < 10 arcsec as opposed to the previous < 3 arcmin) may help reduce polarisation mismatch, greatly facilitating ﬂux balancing of the two interferometer arms.

Tests of achromatic phase shifters performed on the SYNAPSE test bench: a progress report

We take the latter to be a soft link (as opposed to the usual hard constraint of vulcanization theory).

Soft random solids and their heterogeneous elasticity

This is not immediate in the Ising case, since there is not currently a direct proof of RSW for critical FK percolation (as opposed to the independent percolation case).

Ising (Conformal) Fields and Cluster Area Measures

The former refers to the deceleration of a stellar wind by the radiative ﬂux from the opposing star prior to reaching the WCR, whereas the latter refers to the reduction of the net rate of acceleration of a stellar wind due to the opposing radiation ﬁeld.

The short distance behavior of the interaction is random and we show, as would be expected on physical grounds, that it is dominated by the precise value of the dielectric constants at the two opposing slab faces.

Thermal Casimir effect between random layered dielectrics

Figure 1 shows the periodic orbit labeled AB , which resides on the attractor. A great advantage of computing such orbits, as opposed to arbitrary tra jectories, is that the computations take on a deﬁnite character that makes it possible to report them precisely.

Complex Singularities and the Lorenz Attractor

Normally, the channel encoding is performed in ﬁnite Galois ﬁelds as opposed to real/complex ﬁelds; The reason is the simplicity of logic circuit implementation and insensitivity to the pattern of errors.

A Unified Approach to Sparse Signal Processing

Thus, networks with a regular structure, as opposed to random networks, promote stability.